Yearly Archives: 2010

Sending this out to Bob Walsh, attorney and veterans' advocate in Michigan. Bob has taught me more about advocating for veterans' health and law than...

Years from now, perhaps we'll see the day of glory when men and women of good will live in peace. When an injustice to...

From Wonkette By Jack Stuef Despite Republican attempts to stick in a last-minute defense appropriations amendment that failed to kill the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell repeal, President Obama...

From Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki—A Christmas Message from Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki WASHINGTON -- The second year of our...

A TRUCE... The holidays are a time to remember what things are all about, why we are who we are, why we fight wars and...

A Marine's Christmas 'Twas the night before Christmas, he lived all alone, In a one bedroom house made of plaster and stone. I had come ...

In 2008, the Milwaukee chapter of Veterans for Peace began a small, weekly outreach program to look for homeless veterans in Milwaukee and see...

DoD CONTRACTS: No. 1177-10 ARMY DynCorp International, LLC, Falls Church, Va., was awarded on Dec. 20 a $1,043,726,525 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. The award will provide for specialized training...

Combining religion and military life is inherently dangerous, and all steps should be taken to ensure the two are not conflated, either by those...

Even mindless U.S. news organs of the past 40 years do not compare to Fox News as rightwing corporate propaganda emulates the 1970s Soviet press In...

Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1.      The VA's CIO Wants IT Budget Restoration.  Federal Computer Week (12/23, Lipowicz, 90K) reports, "Suspending and delaying...

WASHINGTON -- The holidays are a traditional time of joy, laughter and sharing with family and friends.  They are also a time of remembrance...

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has announced the availability of funds for supportive services grants under the Supportive Services for Veteran Families...

Washington – To help small businesses owned by service-disabled Veterans and other Veteran-owned small businesses become more competitive in the marketplace, the Department of...

Drill Instructors Indoctrinate New Recruits by Routinely Referring to Women as “Girl,” “Pussy,” “Bitch,” and “Dyke” Statistics and soldiers' testimonies reveal a harrowing epidemic of...

"Wikileaks was a conduit for a lot of material that the Wikileakers themselves could not identify or source. If an intelligence agency wanted to...

The Origins of the word ‘Goy’ By Richard Edmondson for VT “Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place...

In an ongoing assault on the occupied Gaza Strip, Israeli fighter jets struck the southern city of Rafah early this morning, injuring four. The...

Arthur "Rex" Crane, 84, posed as a World War II veteran for 22 years and achieved a national profile as Australian president of the...

The Air Force has been able to claim the best practice in addressing PTSD and suicides so this is one of the most important...

Haaretz has an international reputation as Israel's most liberal and reliable newspaper. But The Electronic Intifada has discovered that one of the newspaper's regularly-featured...

CHUTZPAH:  PROMISE TO STOP WORKING FOR ISRAEL "FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON YOU, FOOL ME TWICE...." By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/SeniorEditor "it is one thing for the...

Good morning, The holiday season is one of my favorite times of year at the White House. The White House truly feels like the “People’s House,”...

There's been a few pieces of good news as this year draws down. But in most ways, this year has been a really hard one,...

WILL ASSANGE REALLY DO IT, FINALLY? Wikileaks and Israel By Gilad Atzmon STAFF WRITER 'WikiLeaks to publish Israel files on Second Lebanon War, Dubai...

As The Electronic Intifada reported in November, international solidarity and anti-war activists are facing a new wave of repression in the United States. ......

In the video there are two shots of the planes colliding into the World Trade Center towers, the second airplane didn’t exactly look like a commercial plane. In both cases, the explosions relating to the planes' collisions appear to occur prior to the planes' impact…!

Why Is Israeli Spy Jonathan Pollard Back in the News? Over the past two months, Benjamin Netanyahu has mentioned the fate of jailed Israeli...

With his signature today, the President put in motion the end of a policy that has hurt our military as a whole, that has...

"I don't think the prayer will be published in my time. None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth"—Mark Twain (March 30,...

The power of music to inspire has never been so eloquently illustrated as by John Lennon as he spoke for peace in the face...

VT salutes the Electronic Intifada. The Electronic Intifada has achieved a status of highly effective anecdote to the American corporate media and the relentless propaganda of the 'state'...

DoD CONTRACTS: No. 1173-10 NAVY Maritime Helicopter Support Co., Woodbridge, Va., is being awarded a $1,408,576,709 firm-fixed-price performance based logistics contract for repair of various line items...

"I strongly support the Senate voting to give its advice and consent to ratification of the New START Treaty this week. "The treaty will enhance...

MAKING THE WORLD FEAR AND HATE JEWS A DREADFULLY WRONG POLICY By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor When the rabbi advising Prime Minister Netanyahu goes on...

The United States Postal service is literally on the verge of collapse. Customer service is being curtailed, the price of stamps are going up, much needed employees are being excessed, and the wages of gainfully employed workers are being stolen with impunity. Yet, it has been widely reported that former Postmaster General John E. Potter walked out the door earlier this month with the greater part of $6 million in bonuses and perks in his retirement package. In 2008 Potter reportedly hauled in $857,459, while he president of the United States had to settle for less than half that.

White House Afghanistan Progress Means Staying the Course This was sent to VT from Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW). Posted on behalf of IVAW...

With just hours left in the 111th Congress, Republican lawmakers find themselves the target of ire and scorn from the most unlikely of adversaries:...

Landmark civil rights legislation signing this morning is the culmination of a long battle against Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and an array of political...

Veterans and servicemen and women: Beware of the for-profit college funneling money into the leading neocon daily advocating for war. Send the troops away is the...

In January 2008 Congress increased Combat Veteran benefits by extending the period of enhanced health care enrollment eligibility from two to five years post...

Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1.      New Rule Will Help Veterans Exposed To Agent Orange.  In his "Veteran Veritas" blog for the Tucson...